I use it to quell my paranoid mode to scan my debian laptop On Thu, 2023-01-19 at 08:09 +0100, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote: > On 18/01/2023 21:59, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:08:31 +0200 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2020-05-30 19:53:49 [+0000], Patrick Schleizer wrote: > > > > package clamav-daemon ships a file /usr/bin/clamonacc which is > > > > a > > > > background virus scaning guard / real-time protection. It's > > > > currently > > > > non-trivial to use. > > > > > > > > sudo clamonacc > > > > > > > > ERROR: Clamonacc: at least one of OnAccessExcludeUID, > > > > OnAccessExcludeUname, or OnAccessExcludeRootUID must be > > > > specified ... it > > > > is reccomended you exclude the clamd instance UID or uname to > > > > prevent > > > > infinite event scanning loops > > > > > > > > May I suggest adding an init script / systemd unit file which > > > > runs the > > > > clamonacc background scanner? > > > > > > The config file has to be touched manually to configure it > > > properly. In > > > the past this was part of clamd and people managed to lockup / > > > deadlock > > > their systems. Therefore I hesitate to add an initscript here. > > > However I agree that even with proper configuration an initscript > > > would > > > be nice here since there is no need to over complicate it. > > > > > > Feel free to post something (by someone who is actually using > > > it), > > > otherwise I try to add something later on. > > > > As of clamav-daemon 1.0.0+dfsg-5, a systemd unit is provided for > > clamonacc, so it looks like this issue has been addressed. > > > > However, the unit is enabled by default. This looks like a bug, > > because > > the service fails to start with the default configuration. > > > > IMHO it doesn't make sense to be enabled as default even if it would > start properly. > Most common use of ClamAV is to scan emails. > > Regards > Racke >
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